We’ve got a book on Indigo Kids at work. It’s total bad-parenting self-justification. “It isn’t that my kids are uncontrollable bossy brats and that I am too lenient! They’re smarter than me and I shouldn’t have to teach them! They’ll teach me! All I have to do is never suggest to them that maybe the way to world peace is not to super-glue the dog to the ceiling!”
I’m sorry, I have a hard time accepting that people honestly believe this.
I shouldn’t though. Why should such utter tripe surprise me when I live in a world where people believe there is [insert a topic which would surely land this thread in the Pit.]
“Alien-ated Youth” by Dylan Otto Krider, and atricle that appeared in the Houston Press a few years ago, is a very informative and entertaining read on the Indigo Children phenomenon. Link.You have to read the whole article to the end to really get what the author is getting at, though.
Exactly. My sons are (in my biased oppinion) bright kids. If I were to let them run the house they’d be spending their days in front of the TV playing Star Wars Battlefront and eating pizza five meals a day.
Call me nuts but if I let that happen they will live in the basement forever and mooching my life savings away. They’d probably grow 400 pounds and be covered in bedsores and have the social skills of a 5 year old.
I hadn’t heard of Indigo children till a recent thread here, but it sounds a lot like another movement, called “Spirited Children.”
I had a so-called ‘Spirited Child’ in my class last year and his mother gave us a bunch of photocopied pages from a book about them. It read pretty much the same - bad parenting self-justification.
“He’s not out-of control, he’s ‘high-spirited,’ and must not be disciplined or you’ll squash his natural creativity!”
“You are not allowed to tell him, ‘No’ at any time. It hurts his self-esteem.”
“If he wants to climb on the tables, you must let him. It allows him to view the room from a new perspective.”
“It’s okay if he screams at other children. He’s learning to use his voice in new ways.”
“If he wants all the blocks, it’s okay if he takes them from the other children. He’s too young to have to learn to share.” (He was nearly five)
Sounded like a bunch of bullshit to me. :rolleyes:
Yep, sounds like every preschooler I know. Some people want to think their kids are special, no matter how clear it is that they are just ordinary children who are being badly raised.
I mean, my 4-yo talks all the time, asks questions about everything (and can’t really get the answers), and draws quite well, but that’s because she’s your basic kid with good verbal and fine motor skills. She’s not so hot when it comes to athletics. Why do people insist that their kid has to be special? Why can’t we just enjoy our kids for the quite nice ordinary people they are? I think most kids are quite bright, why do we have to insist that our kids are better than the others? Argh.
If the parents don’t correct them when they’re young, then when they get a little older they’ll just start playing acoustic guitars and singing folk songs all the time.
I want to completely dismiss this as just more New Age wooze. However, all this talk of a “more evolved” race of human beings who are destined to take over and “unite” the world reminds me of a certain set of people who proclaimed the same thing and were led by a German-speaking guy with a funny mustache.
Wow! My almost-10yo daughter is a semi-indigo. When her mother is around she shows all the traits mentioned on one of those sites. When it’s just me she’s a calm, level-headed honors student.
I must be having a bad influence on her. Do you suppose her alien god-parents will ‘disappear’ me?
The impression I got from the article is that an objective view of the Indigos, and those who enable them, still doesn’t make them look good. I did like the bit about the owner of the bookstore, Janet’s Planet, who said she occasionally asked this one guy to leave the Planet. “Yes, the bookstore.”
And if those grade school kids are so brilliant, how come one of them drew a watermelon on the vine, three feet off the ground?